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Looking for "gauge" control, but arc, donut or pie shaped

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I'm looking to represent the position of a music loop visually. Currently the program I'm modifying just uses a linear slider-derived control, but an arc/pie shaped thing delivers a much stronger sense of where you are especially if you're not looking directly at it.

A couple examples of this type of control include:
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It should also be pretty efficient in terms of drawing speed, as several of them want to be drawn ten times per second on a Raspberry Pi.

Thanks!

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Re: Looking for "gauge" control, but arc, donut or pie shaped

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There is no control like that in wxWidgets itself. There are some custom controls available as a wxSmith plugin, but they don't look very nice and don't do exactly what you need: http://wxsmithaddons.sourceforge.net/wxsmithkwic.html

I'd suggest to write a custom control. It's not that hard, especially for a control, the user can't interact with.
https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Painting_your_custom_control
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Re: Looking for "gauge" control, but arc, donut or pie shaped

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Thanks! I'll give it a shot.
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Re: Looking for "gauge" control, but arc, donut or pie shaped

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Hi,
Keep in mind so that for the music player it is sometimes required for the user to re-position the place where the music is played. It will be much harder in the case of such custom-control.

Unless you absolutely sure the user will not interact with the slider - go ahead.

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Re: Looking for "gauge" control, but arc, donut or pie shaped

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ONEEYEMAN wrote: Fri Nov 29, 2019 3:42 pm Hi,
Keep in mind so that for the music player it is sometimes required for the user to re-position the place where the music is played. It will be much harder in the case of such custom-control.

Unless you absolutely sure the user will not interact with the slider - go ahead.

Thank you.
Thanks for your perspective. The user in this case is me and I am adapting this open source project's UI to more closely fit the way I think I want to work. The loops are short and the goal is to provide a very accessible method to capture musical ideas from an electric guitar.

http://essej.net/sooperlooper/

If the user needs to position the playback point of the loop, they can use the original UI. Who knows? Maybe after using it awhile I might change my mind.
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